Wiener Staatsoper: Le Nozze di Figaro

It was supposed to be the best day for Susanna and Figaro: Their wedding day. But Count Almaviva is stalking the bride. Don Basilio pesters Susanna with his intercession for the Count, Marcellina wants to sue for the old marriage contract with Figaro and Doctor Bartolo supports her, also out of old anger against Figaro. And then there is the page Cherubino, who is in love with all the women and whom all the women want to have around, preferably disguised as a girl ... Only with the combined forces of Figaro's imagination, Susanna's cleverness and the support of the betrayed countess can this "great day" be brought to a happy end.

Barrie Kosky, one of the most innovative opera directors of our time, creates a new interpretation of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (which he believed should be renamed Susanna) at the Vienna State Opera with a very young ensemble: Andrè Schuen and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller in the roles of Count and Countess Almaviva, Peter Kellner as Figaro, Patricia Nolz as Cherubino and Ying Fang as well as Maria Nazarova as Susanna. Ying Fang is acting on stage with a perfect lip sync to Maria Nazarova singing from the orchestra pit, as she could not sing herself due to a vocal cord haemorrhage. 

Philippe Jordan conducts the Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper and together they “deliver an ideal mixture of elegant lyricism and concentrated expression – each and every one” (Wiener Zeitung). “Beauty and pointedness are combined in the noblest way.” (Der Standard)

“Beauty and pointedness are combined in the noblest way” (Der Standard). 

“A triumph of Barrie Kosky's directorial art. On the one hand hilarious, on the other highly exciting and much to think about.” (klassik-begeistert.de)